{blackbabes} ‘Transformers’: Dominique Fishback Lands Lead Role Opposite Anthony Ramos In Next Installment For The Paramount Franchise

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Following her breakout role in the Oscar-winning Judas and the Black Messiah, Dominique Fishback has found her next role in one of Hollywood's biggest franchises. Sources tell Deadline that Fishback is in final negotiations to co-star with Anthony Ramos in a Transformers movie for Paramount, eOne and Hasbro that has Steven Caple Jr. is directing. The film is bowing on June 24, 2022

Darnell Metayer and Josh Peters are writing based off a script by Joby Harold. Skydance is co-financing and executive producing. New Republic Pictures are also co-financing partners.

While Ramos seemed like the front-runner from the beginning, Paramount took their time meeting with a number actresses for the other lead role in the film. Ramos would also screen-test with a handful of women and in the end Fishback won over everyone involved on the project. The opportunity to work with Ramos comes full circle for the two who have been close friends for years after working together on a play all the way back in college.

Transformers has been one of Paramount's biggest draws since the franchise was launched in 2007, grossing more than $4 billion worldwide over five films. Following the release of 2017's Transformers: The Last Knight, director Michael Bay parted ways with the series to focus on new original material. After that, the studio decided to do a full revamp of the property, starting with a writers room that would develop multiple ways to pursue a new film, leading to 2018's Bumblebee.

Fishback is having quite the run which started with her BAFTA-nominated role as Deborah Johnson, the writer, activist and fiance Fred Hampton, the Chairman of the Illinois Chapter of the Black Panther Party. Her co-star, Daniel Kaluuya, was recently feted with an Oscar for his role as Hampton but many pundits and critics saw Fishback as breakout star of the film and Hollywood has taken notice. Besides Transformers, Fishback is also set to co-star with Samuel L. Jackson in the Apple series The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, which shoots later this year. She is also starring in Subverted which she will also exec produce with Jamie Foxx and Datari Turner.

She was also recently seen opposite Foxx in Netflix's Project Power. Fishback is repped by WME, Management 360 and Schreck Rose Dapello Adams Berlin & Dunham.

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{blackbabes} Jurnee Smollett To Star & Executive Produce Netflix’s ‘Lou’ Alongside Allison Janney

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Jurnee Smollett, hot off a SAG ensemble nomination and a Best Actress TV Drama series Critics Choice nom for the HBO series Lovecraft Country, is boarding the Netflix movie Lou as star and executive producer.

Smollett joins Oscar winner Allison Janney, who is also starring and executive producing the Anna Foerster-directed film.

Written by Maggie Cohn, a massive storm rages in Lou. A young girl is kidnapped. Her mother, with no other option, teams up with the mysterious older
woman next door to pursue the kidnapper – a journey into the wilderness that will test their limits and expose dark and shocking secrets from their pasts. J.J. Abrams, Jon Cohen and Hannah Minghella of Bad Robot are producing. Braden Aftergood and Lindsey Weber are also EPs. Foerster has directed episodes of Outlander, Westworld and Carnival Row as well as the Screen Gems feature Underworld: Blood Wars starring Kate Beckinsale.

Smollett plays Leti Lewis on Lovecraft Country, the adventure hungry girlfriend to Jonathan Majors' Atticus in the Misha Green created series about a Black family during the 1950s Jim Crow America who square off against monsters and an age-old elite racist secret society, in a tale that mixes real-life history across time and space. If you haven't seen it, check out Smollett's electric performance in Episode 3, "Holy Ghost," in which her character comes back from the dead and squares off with the cops and her racist neighbors after buying a house in a suburban neighborhood.

Smollett has been in Australia filming the Joseph Kosinski directed Chris Hemsworth Netflix action movie Escape From Spiderhead. She starred last year in Warner Bros./DC's Birds of Prey as Black Canary which grossed closed to $202M WW. Other feature credits include Eve's Bayou and Denzel Washington's The Great Debaters. Her TV credits include Green's Underground, True Blood, Parenthood and The Defenders. She is represented by CAA, Management 360 and attorney Nina Shaw.

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{blackbabes} ‘The Last Days Of Ptolemy Grey’: Walton Goggins, Marsha Stephanie Blake, Omar Miller Among Five Cast In Apple Limited Series

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Walton Goggins (Justified, The Unicorn), Marsha Stephanie Blake (I Am Your Woman, When They See Us), Damon Gupton (Black Lightning, Bates Motel), Cynthia Kaye McWilliams (Coyote, Real Husbands of Hollywood) and Omar Miller (The Unicorn, Ballers) round out the ensemble cast for Apple TV+'s limited series The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey. They join Samuel L. Jackson and Dominique Fishback in the six-episode series based on the acclaimed novel by best-selling author Walter Mosley.

In The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey, produced by Apple Studios, Jackson stars as Ptolemy Grey, a 91-year-old man forgotten by his family, by his friends, by even himself. On the brink of sinking even deeper into a lonely dementia, Ptolemy experiences a seismic shift when he's given the tremendous opportunity to briefly regain his memories, and uses this precious and fleeting lucidity to solve his nephew's death and come to terms with his past.

Goggins will play Dr. Rubin. Blake will portray Niecie, the loving mother of Grey's nephew. Gupton will play Coydog, Ptolemy Grey's childhood mentor. McWilliams will portray Sensia, Grey's second wife. Miller is Reggie Lloyd, Grey's Grand Nephew.

Mosley is writing the screen adaptation and will executive produce. Jackson will also serve as executive producer on the project alongside director Ramin Bahrani. David Levine and Eli Selden will executive produce for Anonymous Content, along with Diane Houslin. LaTanya Richardson Jackson will also executive produce.

Goggins stars as Wade Felton on CBS comedy The Unicorn, which recently wrapped its second season. Goggins also serves as a producer on the series. He's perhaps best known for his role as Boyd Crowder on Justified. He was most recently seen on the big screen in the dark action comedy Fatman, alongside Mel Gibson. He's repped by ICM Partners and Darris Hatch Management.

Blake received a supporting actress Emmy nomination for her work on Ava DuVernay's Netflix series When They See Us. She was most recently seen starring in feature I'm Your Woman alongside Rachel Brosnhan. Blake recurred on How To Get Away With Murder and This Is Us and also was featured in Steven Soderbergh's Netflix film, The Laundromat. She's repped by Anonymous Content and and Goodman, Genow, Schenkman, Smelkinson and Christopher.

Miller recently wrapped Season 2 of CBS comedy The Unicorn in the starring role of Ben. He received an NAACP Image Award nomination for his work on HBO's Ballers, and will next lend his voice to the Netflix original animated feature, Rise of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Miller is repped by A3 Artists Agency and Artists First.

Gupton is known for his role as Bill Henderson on the CW's Black Lightning and as Dr. Gregg Edwards on Bates Motel. He also recently played Jeh Johnson on The Comey Rule. Gupton is repped by Harden Curtis Kirsten Riley Agency, SMS Talent and Brookside Artist Management.

McWilliams was most recently seen in Paramount+ series Coyote and previously appeared on Real Husbands of Hollywood. She also played Detective Joan Bennett on Bosch. McWilliams is repped by APA.

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{blackbabes} Cyntoia Brown Limited Series From Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, La La Anthony & Santa Sierra In Works At Starz

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Starz has put in development The Case of Cyntoia Brown, a limited drama series inspired by the story of Cyntoia Brown-Long, who served 15 years of a life sentence for killing a man when she was 16 years old. The project, based on Brown-Long's book, Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System, hails from Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson (Power, Black Mafia Family) and La La Anthony (Power, The Chi), who will executive produce, and writer Santa Sierra (Power Book III: Raising Kanan, Vida). Brown-Long and her husband Jamie Long will consult on the project.

Anthony has been a long-time supporter of Brown-Long and brought the project to Jackson's G-Unit Film & Television, Inc. banner, which is developing the series under G-Unit's overall deal with Starz.

Written by Sierra, the series tells the story of Cyntoia Brown-Long who was sex trafficked by a boyfriend, tried as an adult at 16 years old and sentenced to life in prison for aggravated robbery and first-degree murder. Despite being a minor, the sentence required her to serve at least 51 years before being eligible for parole consideration, which would not make her eligible for parole until she was 67.

Sierra also will serve as executive producer.

"We're honored to be entrusted with Cyntoia's story, which shines a light on the injustice of a system that tried and sentenced an at-risk minor as an adult when she was a victim herself of sex trafficking," said Christina Davis, President of Original Programming for Starz. "This limited series from Curtis, La La and Santa chronicles Cyntoia's long journey to freedom and furthers our #TakeTheLead programming mandate centered on narratives by, about and for women and underrepresented audiences."

For years, Brown-Long maintained that the 2004 killing was an act of self-defense. Over the years, the fight for her release brought prominent lawyers to her defense and support from celebrities in addition to Anthony including LeBron James, Kim Kardashian West and Rihanna. While incarcerated, Brown-Long earned her associates and bachelor's degrees while also mentoring at-risk youth.

She was granted clemency and released in 2019 and now advocates for criminal justice reform and victims of trafficking. Her case also inspired the introduction of state legislation aimed at protecting minors who are victims of sex trafficking. Since her conviction, juvenile sentencing guidelines in Tennessee have been amended: now, children under the age of 18 cannot be tried for prostitution. If she were to be arrested today, Brown-Long would be treated as a child human trafficking victim. The project falls under Starz's recently launched #TakeTheLead initiative, the company's comprehensive effort to deepen its existing commitment to narratives by, about and for women and underrepresented audiences.

Jackson is repped by APA and attorneys Eric Feig and Stephen Savva. Sierra is repped by Verve.

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{blackbabes} ‘Fantasy Island’: Kiara Barnes Joins Fox Reboot As She Nears ‘The Bold & The Beautiful’ Exit; John Gabriel Rodriquez Also Cast

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The Bold and the Beautiful star Kiara Barnes has been cast as a series regular and John Gabriel Rodriquez (If Loving You Is Wrong) as heavily recurring in Fantasy Island, Fox's contemporary version of the classic drama series that has a straight-to-series order to air this summer. The project hails from writer-producers Liz Craft and Sarah Fain as well as Sony Pictures TV and its Gemstone Studios label, which co-produce with Fox Entertainment.

Actress-singer Barnes has been tapped for Fantasy Island as she is finishing her last year on CBS' long-running daytime drama The Bold and the Beautiful, Deadline has learned. Barnes, who has played Zoe Buckingham since 2018, will be wrapping production on the soap soon.

The reboot is keeping the semi-anthological format of the original Fantasy Island with three main characters, two played by Barnes and Rodriquez, who live/work on the island and new guests arriving in every episode.

The original series, created by Gene Levitt and executive produced by Aaron Spelling and Leonard Goldberg, starred Ricardo Montalbán as the mysterious Mr. Roarke and Hervé Villechaize as his assistant Tattoo as they grant guests so-called "fantasies" on the island for a price.

The new Fantasy Island will be run by Elena Roarke, a direct descendant of Mr. Roarke.

Barnes will play the warm and wise Ruby Okoro, a young woman with an old soul. She arrives on Fantasy Island with a terminal illness, but Roarke and the island give her a new lease on life.

Rodriquez will play the rugged, handsome and charismatic Javier, Fantasy Island's head of transport — a pilot, mechanic and jack of all trades. While the island provides Javier refuge, as with everything else it offers, it may come at the price of a reckoning.

There is no direct version of the Tattoo character in the reboot.

The Fantasy Island reimagining, written and executive produced by Craft and Fain, delves into the "what if" questions that keep us awake at night. Each episode will tell emotional, provocative stories about people who walk in with a desire but end up reborn to themselves through the magical realism of Fantasy Island.

Barnes recently starred in the Lifetime original movie The Wrong Wedding. She also stars on the UMC show Stuck With You, which is headed into Season 2. She is repped by Zero Gravity Management, Aperture Talent Agency and attorney Melanie Frank.

Rodriquez, who has done guest starring/recurring stints on NCIS, Young and Hungry, The Fosters and Rosewood and was a series regular in the NBC pilot Miranda's Rights, is repped by Haven Entertainment.

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{blackbabes} Beyoncé and Jay-Z hit party at Omar Hernandez’s new Miami supper club

 

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Beyoncé and Jay- Z took Miami over the weekend and one of their first stops was opening night of Omar Hernandez's private supper club "Nights at the Saxony" at the Faena Hotel.

It'll be a weekly private event at the hotel's Saxony Bar.

Spies at the bash told us the couple was "very well-escorted" and appeared "relaxed and chill," hanging in Hernandez's private cove.

Hotelier Alan Faena, Naeem Khan, Colin Cowie, a pregnant Karolina Kurkova and her husband Archie Drury were also on the scene.

Meanwhile, party guy Cuba Gooding Jr. showed up with girlfriend Claudine DeNiro for night two of Hernandez's party and showed off his karaoke skills. He and David Bryan from Bon Jovi belted out "It's My Life" and Journey's "Faithfully." Gooding was also spotted hanging out and taking photos with drag star Adora.

"We love you Omar," Gooding shouted on the mic.

One partygoer described the scene as a "magical weekend of reconnecting and feeling alive!"

This is Hernandez's first party since splitting from the Omar's brand he launched in New York with his venues Vaucluse and La Boîte. His former partners still operate under his name and brought their own party, Omar's La Plage, to Miami in March. He distanced himself from the brand after disagreeing on how to operate during the pandemic.

"We're slowly parting ways. I'm slowly phasing out and going back to my own roots. La Boîte and La Plage is a spinoff of what we've done in the past, but now I'm transitioning into something else," Hernandez told Page Six last month.

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{blackbabes} ‘New Amsterdam’: Frances Turner Joins NBC Medical Drama As Recurring

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The Man in the High Castle alumna Frances Turner is joining the current third season of NBC medical drama series New Amsterdam in a recurring role.

Turner will play Dr. Lyn Malvo, the new Chair of the OB department. Malvo will have a "complicated" friendship with Dr. Reynolds (Jocko Sims) this season. She will first be seen in tomorrow's (Tuesday) episode entitled "Catch."

New Amsterdam is inspired by Dr. Eric Manheimer's memoir Twelve Patients: Life and Death at Bellevue Hospital and his 15 years as medical director at the hospital.

Schulner and Peter Horton executive produce along with Michael Slovis, David Foster, Aaron Ginsburg and Shaun Cassidy. The series is produced by Universal Television, a division of Universal Studio Group, Pico Creek Productions and Mount Moriah.

Turner is best known for her starring role in the fourth and final season of critically acclaimed series, Amazon's The Man in the High Castle. Most recently she wrapped the upcoming feature films After We Fell and After Ever Happy, the third and fourth installments in the popular After film franchise. Frances' previous work also includes guest appearances in Quantico, Blue Bloods, Time After Time, Lethal Weapon and Powerless. Turner additionally recurred on It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, The Gifted and on the final season of The Exes. Turner is repped by APA and Luber Roklin Entertainment.

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{blackbabes} Deborah Cox Joins HBO Max Series ‘Station Eleven’ As Recurring

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Actress-music artist Deborah Cox has been tapped for a recurring role in HBO Max's Station Eleven, a 10-episode limited drama series based on the international bestseller by Emily St. John Mandel, from Maniac creator Patrick Somerville and Paramount TV Studios.

Written and executive produced by Somerville, Station Eleven is a post-apocalyptic saga spanning multiple timelines. It tells the stories of survivors of a devastating flu as they attempt to rebuild and reimagine the world anew while holding on to the best of what's been lost.

Cox will play Wendy, a musician looking for more in The Traveling Symphony.

Somerville also serves as showrunner. Hiro Murai directs and executive produces with Somerville, Scott Steindorff, Scott Delman, Dylan Russell, Nate Matteson, Jeremy Podeswa and Jessica Rhoades. Nick Cuse and David Nicksay will serve as co-EPs. Paramount TV Studios is the studio.

Cox toured nationally in the lead role of the musical The Bodyguard. She headlined the BET movie Influence and also appeared in the Lifetime movie V.C. Andrews' Rub and recurred in the BET comedy series The First Wives Club. Her upcoming seventh studio album is set for release in 2021. Cox is repped by TCA and longtime manager Andy Howard at Shelter .

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{blackbabes} Yara & Keri Shahidi Developing TV Series Based On Cole Brown’s Book ‘Greyboy: Finding Blackness In A White World’ For ABC Signature

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In a competitive situation, ABC Signature has acquired the rights to Cole Brown's critically acclaimed debut book Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World, to develop for television. Grown-ish star Yara Shahidi and her business partner and mother Keri Shahidi will develop the series and executive produce via their 7th Sun Productions, as part of their overall deal with the studio, a part of Disney Television Studios. Brown also will serve as an executive producer.

Published in 2020, Greyboy: Finding Blackness in a White World is a first-hand examination of what it means to navigate the in-between.

Per the book's synopsis: "Cole has heard it all before—token, bougie, oreo—the things we call the kids like him. Black kids who grow up in white spaces, living at an intersection of race and class that many doubt exists. He needed to get far away from the preppy site of his upbringing before he could make sense of it all.

Through a series of personal anecdotes and interviews with his peers, Cole transports us to his adolescence and explores what it's like to be young and in search of identity. He digs into the places where, in youth, a greyboy's difference is most acutely felt: parenting, police brutality, depression, and dating, to name a few."

Greyboy was announced as the April selection of NBA star Stephen Curry's Underrated Book Club by Literati and has been lauded by Sean 'Diddy' Combs, Queen Latifah, Anthony Anderson, and Misty Copeland, among others. Greyboy was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Literary Work by a Debut Author.

"From our first conversation, it was obvious that Yara, Keri, and the 7th Sun team understood this story intimately and had a vision for it that aligned with my own," said Brown. "I'm thrilled to be working with them to bring Greyboy to life for TV."

"Every time we picked up Greyboy, Cole's words have only become more resonant," said the Shahidis. "His essays beautifully, and at times, painfully illuminate the much larger conversations around being 'tokenized' while navigating ever-changing white spaces. We are excited to partner with Cole and share the brilliance of Greyboy with a larger audience."

The Shahidis are repped by CAA and attorney Ryan Nord. Brown is repped by CAA and attorney Darrell Miller.

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{blackbabes} ‘Day Shift’: Meagan Good, Karla Souza, Snoop Dogg & More Board Netflix Vampire Hunter Movie

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Meagan Good (Shazam! Fury of the Gods, Prodigal Son), Karla Souza (How to Get Away with Murder, Home Economics), Scott Adkins (Debt Collectors, Ip Man 4: The Finale), Eric Lange (Perry Mason, Antebellum), Zion Broadnax (Sydney to the Max), and Snoop Dogg (Dolemite Is My Name, The SpongeBob Movie: Sponge on the Run) have been added to the cast of Day Shift, the Netflix film which will mark the directorial debut of JJ Perry.

The new additions are joining previously announced stars Jamie Foxx, Dave Franco, Natasha Liu Bordizzo, Oliver Masucci, Steve Howey, and C.S. Lee.

Written by Tyler Tice with current revisions by Shay Hatten, the pic follows Foxx as a hard-working blue collar dad who just wants to provide a good life for his quick-witted daughter, but his mundane San Fernando Valley pool cleaning job is a front for his real source of income, hunting and killing vampires as part of an international Union of vampire hunters.

John Wick franchise helmer Chad Stahelski and Jason Spitz are producing the pic for 87Eleven Entertainment with Shaun Redick and Yvette Yates Redick for Impossible Dream Entertainment. Foxx, his producing partner Datari Turner, and Peter Baxter will serve as executive producers.

Meagan is repped by Atlas Artists, Gersh, and Morris Yorn Barnes; Souza by Wishlab Inc, CAA, and Gang Tyre; Snoop by Morris Yorn Barnes Levine; Broadnax by AEFH and Moxie Artists.

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{blackbabes} Anika Noni Rose Joins ‘Let the Right One In’ Showtime Drama Pilot

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Tony Award winner Anika Noni Rose (Dreamgirls, Power) is set as a lead opposite Demián Bichir in Let the Right One In, Showtime's vampire drama pilot from Away creator Andrew Hinderaker, who serves as showrunner; Seith Man, who will direct; and Tomorrow Studios.

Inspired by the best-selling 2004 novel by John Ajvide Lindqvist and its 2008 Swedish film adaptation, the series revolves around Mark (Bichir) and his 12-year-old daughter, whose lives were changed forever 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire. Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the minimal amount of human blood she needs to stay alive.

Rose will play Naomi. Brilliant but cynical, Naomi balances life as a single mother with her career as a homicide detective. She'd do anything for her son, Isaiah, and when Isaiah befriends the girl who's just moved in next door, Naomi's thrilled — until she starts to suspect something's off with their new neighbors.

Let the Right One In is described as an elevated genre drama, which is turning a naturalistic lens on human frailty, strength and compassion. The pilot is executive produced by Hinderaker, Mann and Marty Adelstein and Becky Clements for Tomorrow Studios, a partnership between Adelstein and ITV Studios. Bichir will serve as a producer on the potential series.

In addition to sharing in Grammy and SAG Award nominations for Dreamgirls, Rose, a nine-time NAACP Image Award nominee, has appeared in such recent films and TV series as Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey, Them and Little Fires Everywhere. On Broadway, she earned a Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance in Caroline, or Change, and she was also nominated for A Raisin in the Sun. Rose is repped by Innovative, David Williams Management, GoodManagement and Schreck Rose Dapello.

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{blackbabes} Christina Jackson To Star In ‘The Spook Who Sat By The Door’ FX Pilot Produced By Lee Daniels

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Christina Jackson (Outsiders) has been tapped as the female lead opposite Y'lan Noel in The Spook Who Sat by the Door, FX's drama pilot based on Sam Greenlee's spy novel, which is executive produced by Lee Daniels.

Written by Leigh Dana Jackson and to be directed by Gerard McMurray, The Spook Who Sat by the Door tells at the fictional story of Dan Freeman (Noel), who has just been hired as the only Black operative in the CIA. He is a patriot, a Vietnam vet, and secretly, a Black Revolutionary.

Jackson will play Joy Freeman, an up-and-coming attorney committed to making a difference in her community and Dan's (Noel) wife.

Greenlee's book, published in 1969, was turned into a 1973 feature film, in which the roles of Dan Freeman and Joy Freeman were played by Lawrence Cook and Janet League, respectively.

The Spook Who Sat by the Door is produced by 20th Television. It was optioned through Daniels' Inclusion Fund. Daniels, Marc Velez, Leigh Dana Jackson and McMurray exec produce. Jackson serves as showrunner.

Up next, Christina Jackson stars as the female lead alongside Jonathan Majors in Sony's big-budget war movie Devotion. In TV, Jackson recently wrapped production on season one of Apple TV+'s sports drama series Swagger. She is best known for starring in the WGN drama series Outsiders and has had major recurring roles on Boardwalk Empire, The Good Fight and Deception. Jackson is repped by Paradigm, MKSD Talent Management and JATWMMBTK.

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{blackbabes} ‘Pam & Tommy’: Pepi Sonuga & Andrew Dice Clay Join Hulu Limited Series As Recurring

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Pepi Sonuga (9-1-1, Thriller) and Andrew Dice Clay (Blue Jasmine, A Star Is Born) are set for recurring roles opposite Lily James, Sebastian Stan and Seth Rogen in Pam & Tommy, Hulu's limited series based on the true story behind the release of the first ever viral video — the sex tape of Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee. Nick Offerman also stars.

Written by Robert Siegel and DV DeVincentis, Annapurna-produced Pam & Tommy stars James and Stan as the famous celebrity couple.

Sonuga will play Melanie, Pam's best friend and wing-woman. Confident and strong, she becomes overprotective when bad-boy rock star Tommy Lee takes a liking to her best friend.

Clay will portray Butchie. A mob guy but not a "Mob Guy," Butchie's malevolence is matter-of-fact and he's tired of what you've said before you've finished saying it. He can't stand clowns, but that's who borrows money at loan-shark interest rates, so he controls himself when dealing with them. Until they f*ck up.

Siegel and DeVincentis executive produce and DeVincentis also serves as showrunner. Craig Gillespie directs and also executive produces with Rogen, Evan Goldberg, James Weaver and Alex McAtee via Point Grey; James Franco, Dave Franco and Vince Jolivette via Ramona; Megan Ellison, Sue Naegle and Ali Krug via Anapurna; along with Chip Vucelich, Dylan Sellers and Sarah Gubbins.

Sonuga was a series regular on Freeform's Famous in Love. Her recent TV credits include guest roles on Into the Dark and 9-1-1. She recently was seen in features Under the Silver Lake and Thriller.

Clay starred in the semi-autobiographical series Dice, which aired for two seasons on Showtime. He was most recently seen on Hap and Leonard and the features A Star Is Born and Blue Jasmine.

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{blackbabes} Serena Williams Strikes First-Look TV Deal With Amazon Studios, Sets Untitled Docuseries On Professional & Personal Life

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Tennis icon Serena Williams has inked a first-look TV deal with Amazon Studios, with an untitled docuseries already in the works.

The 23-time Grand Slam tennis champ will work with Amazon Studios to create scripted and unscripted television projects that will debut exclusively on Amazon Prime Video. The in-the-works docuseries will follow Williams' professional and personal life. The untitled series comes from Plum Pictures, Goalhanger Films and Amazon Studios. Williams will executive produce with Patrick Mouratoglou, Stuart Cabb, and Tony Pastor.

"I'm very excited to be partnering with Amazon Studios – they are developing some of the most inspiring and important content for a global audience. I have a lot of stories I'm eager to tell, including a continuation of my own, and I look forward to sharing those with the world," said Williams.

"Serena has transformed her sport and become one of the most inspiring athletes, entrepreneurs and women of her generation, admired not only for her unmatched prowess on the court but for her dedication to advocacy as well," said Jennifer Salke, Head of Amazon Studios. "We're incredibly excited to share her journey in this new series, and to work with her to create new original content for our Prime Video customers worldwide."

Williams is the most prized WTA player of all time, raking in titles in all four grand slam tournaments, 73 singles and 23 doubles championships, and gold-medals at the 2000, 2008 and 2012 Olympics. Beyond tennis, Williams has delved into business, entertainment, fashion and philanthropy. In 2018 she launched the Yetunde Price Resource Center in Compton, California, honoring the life and memory of her oldest sister and ensuring those affected by trauma have the necessary resources to persevere.

The untitled docuseries adds to Williams' entertainment slate. In 2018 she starred in HBO's 2018 docuseries Being Serena.

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{blackbabes} ‘The Midnight Club’: Iman Benson, William B. Davis Among Five Added To Cast Of Netflix Horror Series Adaptation

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Iman Benson (Alexa & Katie), Larsen Thompson (Boléro) William B. Davis (The X-Files), Crystal Balint (The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco) and Patricia Drake (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants) have joined the cast of Netflix's The Midnight Club, a 10-episode horror series from Mike Flanagan and Leah Fong, based on the creative works of bestselling author Christopher Pike. The series hails from Flanagan and Trevor Macy's Intrepid Pictures, which has been under a deal with Netflix since 2019.

Pike's The Midnight Club book was published by Simon and Schuster in 1994. It is set at Rotterdam Home, a hospice where teenagers with terminal illnesses went to die. The book revolves a group of five young men and women who met at midnight and told stories of intrigue and horror. One night they made a pact that the first of them to die would make every effort to contact the others from beyond the grave. The five join previously announced cast Adia, Igby Rigney, Ruth Codd, Aya Furukawa, Annarah Shephard, William Chris Sumpter, Sauriyan Sapkota as the members of the titular club with Zach Gilford, Matt Biedel and Samantha Sloyan in supporting roles and Heather Langenkamp playing the doctor who presides over the hospice.

Other character details are being kept under wraps for now.

Flanagan and Fong co-created the series and executive produce with Intrepid's Trevor Macy, along with Julia Bicknell and Christopher Pike. Flanagan will direct three episodes.

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{blackbabes} ‘Games People Play’: Brandi Denise Joins BET Drama As Series Regular, Six Added To Recurring Cast

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Brandi Denise (Power, Power Book II: Ghost) has been cast as a new series regular for the second season of Games People Play, BET's hour-long scripted drama series from executive producer Tracey Edmonds. Denise joins previously announced Karrueche Tran, Lauren London in a limited role, Sarunas J. Jackson, Karen Obilom, Parker McKenna Posey, Jackie Long, and Kendall Kyndall. Additionally, Cynthia Bailey, Nazanin Mandi, Ro Parrish, Hitman Holla, Leon and Calvin Seabrooks have been tapped for recurring roles in Season 2 joining returning cast Vanessa Bell Calloway, Vanessa Simmons, Shaun Robinson, Kevin Jackson, Barry Brewer, and Monti Washington who will reprise their recurring roles. Season 2 is set to premiere this fall on BET.

The second season picks up with Marques (Jackson) and Vanessa (London) learning the paternity of their new child as he struggles to find his footing on and off the court. Meanwhile, Nia's (Obilom) investigation into a secret society jeopardizes her relationship with MJ (Kyndall) and Laila (McKenna Posey). Tran plays Eden Lazlo, the LA Vipers owner's daughter and newly named VP of basketball operations, who further complicates Marques King's love life.

Denise will play "Quanisha," Kareem's longtime ride or die girlfriend who becomes his fiancé.
Calloway portrays "Sheila," Kareem's loving mother with a few secrets of her own.
Simmons is "Jackie," the basketball wives club head wife. She has ties to Kalinda and is accused of her murder.
Robinson plays "Kris," Nia's sharp editor-boss.
Jackson portrays "Jamal," Kareem's coach and family friend.
Brewer plays "Eric," Nia's tech savvy boyfriend.
Washington is "Terrence," Nia's detective friend from her past.
Bailey plays "Ndasia," an indy-documentarian who is currently working on an in-depth expose on The Foundation.
Mandi portrays "Zara," wife to new Viper player Tyreck.
Parrish plays "himself, " a Vipers' NBA Commentator.
Holla is "Rome," the new cocky point guard traded to the Vipers with hopes of bringing them the championship win. He sets his sights on Laila
Leon Seabrooks plays "Walter," Marques father.
Calvin Seabrooks portrays "Andre," a successful ex from MJ's past with ties to The Foundation.

Games People Play is executive produced by Tracey Edmonds of Edmonds Entertainment, Angela Burt-Murray and Vanessa Middleton. Ruth Ferrera recently joined the show as Supervising Producer.

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{blackbabes} ‘Women Of The Movement’: Seven Added To Recurring Cast Of ABC Limited Series

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ABC is rounding out the recurring cast for its limited series Women of the Movement, from creator-writer Marissa Jo Cerar and a producing team that includes Jay-Z, Will Smith and Aaron Kaplan. Joining the cast are Leslie Silva as Ruby Hurley, Chris Butler as Rayfield Mooty, Alex Désert as Dr. Howard, Miles Fowler as Simeon Booker, Tongayi Chirisa as Medgar Evers, Jason Turner as James Hicks, and Daniel Abeles as Chet Packton.

The six-episode limited series is set in 1955. It centers on Mamie Till-Mobley (Adrienne Warren), who risks her life to find justice after her son Emmett (Cedric Joe) is brutally murdered in the Jim Crow South. Unwilling to let Emmett's murder disappear from the headlines, Mamie chooses to bear her pain on the world stage, emerging as an activist for justice and igniting the Civil Rights movement as we know it today.

Glynn Turman, Chris Coy, Julia McDermott, Carter Jenkins, Tonya Pinkins and Ray Fisher co-star.

Silva's Ruby Hurley was a famed NAACP activist and leader in the Civil Rights Movement. A lady badass among men, Ruby was fiercely committed to getting justice for Emmett Till.

Butler's Rayfield Mooty is Chicago Labor Union Leader, and second cousin to Mamie Till-Mobley. Rayfield was instrumental in getting the NAACP involved in the Emmett Till murder investigation.

Désert's Dr. Theodore Roosevelt Mason Howard, a brilliant maverick, was an American civil rights activist, surgeon, and one of the most influential Black leaders in Mississippi. Actively involved in the Emmett Till murder investigation and trial, Dr. Howard turned his home into command central for Mamie Till-Mobley's entourage and Black journalists who were desperately searching for evidence to get justice for her son.

Fowler's Simeon Booker, a celebrated Black journalist with Jet Magazine, vowed to make sure the killing of Emmett Till remained in the headlines. Sympathetic, brilliant and a man of his word, Booker's coverage of Emmett Till helped redefine both the publication and the Civil Rights Movement.

Chirisa's Medgar Evers is the beloved NAACP field secretary who was one of Mississippi's most prominent civil rights activists. Committed to bringing Emmett's killers to justice, Medgar risked his life to find key evidence during the murder trial.

Turner's James Hicks is one of Black journalism's most prominent reporters, whose investigative work played a huge role in the Emmett Till murder trial.

Abeles' Chet Packton is a southern gentleman and journalist who unexpectedly becomes part of the Emmett Till murder investigation.

Women of the Movement is produced by Kapital Entertainment. Jay-Z, Jay Brown and Tyran "Ty Ty" Smith (Roc Nation), and Will Smith and James Lassiter (Overbrook) executive produce along with Aaron Kaplan, Dana Honor and Michael Lohmann for Kapital Entertainment, Marissa Jo Cerar, Gina Prince-Bythewood; Rosanna Grace (Serendipity Film Group), Alex Foster and John Powers Middleton (Middleton Media Group) and David Clark (Mazo Partners).

Silva's television and film credits include NBC's Shades of Blue, CW's In The Dark, Showtime's Odyssey 5, the Hulu limited series The Looming Tower and the independent film Reversion. On stage, she starred in the Signature Theatre's production of Chicago, directed by Joseph Chaikin and Sam Shepard, as well as The Master Builder directed by André Gregory. Silva is repped by Artists & Representatives and Authentic Talent and Literary Management.

Butler is best known as Matan Brody on The Good Wife and The Good Fight and Dax Minter on Designated Survivor. He aslo appeared on Broadway in 110 in the Shade with Audra McDonald. He is repped by SDB Partners and Pine River Entertainment.

Désert is known for his roles on the long-running CBS show Becker and in the cult indie film Swingers. He is currently the voice of Carl Carlson on Fox's The Simpsons as well as 'Mr. Bojenkins' on Adult Swim's, Momma Names Me Sheriff. Other credits include Disney's Freaky Friday and Let It Shine. He'll next be seen in Amazon's upcoming series A League Of Their Own. He's repped by Imperium 7.

Fowler is a recent graduate from the University of Southern California's School of Dramatic Arts. He is repped by Authentic Talent and Literary Management.

Tongayi recently starred in Palm Springs alongside Andy Samberg and the Lionsgate thriller Antebellum opposite Janelle Monae. In television, Tongayi recently wrapped season two of Netflix's sci-fi action series Another Life, and starred as Friday in NBC's Crusoe. He also had a series regular role in the critically acclaimed comedy The Jim Gaffigan Show. Tongayi is repped by Industry Entertainment Partners and Domain Talent.

Turner is best known for his recurring role as Walt on the CW's supernatural thriller Legacies. He's also recurred on BET+'s Bigger, Fox's medical drama The Resident and has been seen on BET's American Soul as Milo, ABC's Scandal and Criminal Minds on CBS. He's repped by Houghton Talent in Atlanta, GA.

Abeles' television credits include Strange Angel (2018) and The Good Wife (2009). He also is the founder and co-producing partner of Lesser America, a theatre company.

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{blackbabes} Oscars: Academy Sets Ensemble Cast Of 15 Stars To Serve As Presenters

 

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The producers of this year's very unusual 93rd annual Academy Awards have promised to do the entire broadcast as if it were a movie itself. In line with that, they are "casting" it that way too with an ensemble of 15 stars to handle all the presenting duties, and also in lieu of a host (for a third straight year).

Among the "cast" though, the producers appear to be sticking with at least one Oscar tradition: to have all four acting winners from the previous year return to present the four acting categories this year. Specifically how they will be employed into the show the Academy didn't say, but you can assume that is the reason Joaquin Phoenix, Renee Zellweger, Brad Pitt and Laura Dern are part of the proceedings.

Phoenix, Zellweger, and Dern did the honors similarly at the Golden Globes, though Pitt will be making his first appearance on the awards circuit this year at the Oscars. Also last year's Best Director winner, Bong Joon Ho, who made four trips to the stage for Parasite, is also part of this ensemble, presumably to present Best Director. Other names announced Monday — in alphabetical order — are Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Don Cheadle, Bryan Cranston, Harrison Ford, Regina King, Marlee Matlin, Rita Moreno, Reese Witherspoon and Zendaya.

"In keeping with our awards-show-as-a-movie approach, we've assembled a truly stellar cast of stars," said producers Jesse Collins, Stacey Sher and Steven Soderbergh. "There's so much wattage here, sunglasses may be required."

This idea of having a set group of presenters rotating in and out of the show is not new. When producer Gower Champion reimagined the 1969 Oscar show he created what they called "Friends of Oscar," with 10 stars exclusively serving as presenters (and no host). The format was then repeated successfully the next year, and has been tweaked occasionally over the decades — including for the innovative 2009 show produced by Bill Condon and Laurence Mark, which used combinations of five past winners each to present the acting awards.

Additional talent joining the April 25 live broadcast on ABC will be announced later. Word is all the nominated songs will be performed for the first time on the pre-show. We shall see.

 

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{blackbabes} Newcomer Yasmin Finney To Star In Billy Porter’s Directorial Debut Feature ‘What If?’ From Orion Pictures

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Following a global casting search, rising star Yasmin Finney, the 17-year-old Black Trans woman from Manchester, England, has landed a lead role in Orion Pictures' What If?, the first project announced under the leadership of Orion President Alan Mayo. Emmy-winning Pose star Billy Porter is stepping behind the camera for the first time, directing the drama from a script by Alvaro García Lecuona.

Finney will star as Kelsa, a Trans high school senior in this modern coming-of-age story. After Khal posts online about his school crush, the internet encourages him to go for it. What If? tells the story of Kelsa and Khal navigating a high school senior year relationship that neither could have expected.

Christine Vachon is producing the pic on behalf of Killer Films with David Hinojosa, and Andrew Lauren, and D.J. Gugenheim for Andrew Lauren Productions.

One of the most influential actresses within the Transgender community, Finney is known for her highly-viewed and groundbreaking Tik Tok videos where she shares her experience as a Trans woman growing up in Manchester. Her videos have been watched over 12 million times. With over two hundred and ninety thousand followers, she is regularly included on lists of Tik Tok's biggest influencers.

Finney is repped by Curtis Brown Group Ltd and Peikoff Mahan.

Orion's forthcoming film slate includes Women Talking from writer/director Sarah Polley and starring Frances McDormand, who will also produce via her Hear/Say productions.

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